The Rugby Club on Sky Sports did a segment recently that focused on an amateur rugby team, the Clapham Falcons, from South London Division 5. The result is truly fascinating, and highly entertaining, but be prepared, it gets very weird..

We're always looking for top quality rugby content here on RD, and this short docu feature is no different as we get an inside look into the lives of three young professionals plying their trade in London, while drinking, living, a breathing rugby.

RD was able to catch up with them to get their thoughts on being the stars of such a segment, but unlike the norm, we'd encourage you to jump straight to the video now, then come back to read more later so as to avoid any spoilers. So stop reading now, and hit play below.

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I caught up with Oliver Blazeby , who plays 6, sometimes 7, to find out more about the guys who took us into the deepest, darkest places of their rugby obsessed lives. His alter-ego, Dan Jones, who works for a production company, told me that Don't Drop the Egg, a mokumentary, is the result of 9 months off writing, directing, editing, and of course, acting.

It's a satirical look at rugby players, and more specifically, the privileged university rugby types that most of us will have encountered at one time or another. The obvious question arose, 'Do you all actually still play rugby?'

"We all DID play rugby, now we are just fans," said Dan, who plays Blazeby, the die-hard of the bunch who has clearly taken one too many knocks to the head.

"Interestingly we all played a little at university and started to recognise these characters, and 3 years on we have made something with them very much in the front our minds.

Tom Magnus, who plays Freddie Shepherd , works with Dan, and then Orry Gibbens, who is a stand-up comedian, plays the self-obsessed pretty boy flyhalf, Archie Curzon .

"We were drawn together rather easily and had a good base knowledge of what we intended to do. We all liked to make people laugh at school, and all probably were in a Shakespeare play as well," said Dan. And what about the budget?

"We had no budget, other than the small amount we put in ourselves to cover things like wine, face paint, pitch hire etc. Orry and Dan still owe Tom about half the 'budget'."

It has possibly best last line ever. I was curious as to who came up with it.

"The last line was actually thought up by our cameraman Tim Colman: The invisible 4th member of The BoomTown Twats who keeps us together and tells us when we are shit.

"It was a struggle; we had the line ' There aren't many games where you would break a limb for a mate ' which is actually rather honest, real and moving assessment of rugby. The last line just flipped that on its head, the 2 line together summing up the film perfectly."

If all goes to plan, we'll be seeing more of Archie, Freddie, and Blazeby on RD sometime soon.

The videos are presented in three parts as a playlist below, totaling 40 minutes. Enjoy.

Ha ha ha! I love it when Blazeby meets that Saracens player. The last time I met Thierry Dusautoir here in Toulouse, I barely managed a "bravo, man!" while chuckling and wanting to slap him on the back. Poor players, they must be sick of us fans.
I also love the way the Clapham coach keeps on throwing things around. My coach doesn't do that, he's just immensely cynical and slices through you with soft-spoken irony.
Anyhow, all true amateur rugby players have to appreciate the Rugby fan base over in England! A country with 2.5 million registered players surely can't be that bad!
Ok, back to viewing "don't drop the egg" (still have 2 videos to go).

This is absolutely awesome stuff. My team has about three people like Oli.
And the #10 personality depiction is pretty accurate. At least in the amateur level, you do have to be a delusional ego-maniac to think you can play flyhalf...well...

First post:
I'd offer Rugby Dump's it's own advise:
"Please use common sense and be respectful"
The video is juvenile. Get rid of it and stick to what you're good at: providing current and brilliant video clips of games and playing sequences of interest.
Hard to believe the level of maturity out there warrants so many "likes" without counter.

...to the comment above! Get a life, this is one of my favourite posts ever on RD. It would obviously appear that you are culturely unaware of what most Rugby fans are like. It's a brilliantly accurate portrayl of ex-university playing rugby lads that many of us here on RD can relate to. You clearly haven't played a decent standard of Rugby yourself or you would have been aware of the truth in this mokumentary. It's a one off that RD has posted, but it is still highly appropriate for us Rugby fans.

Anonymous said...
First post:
I'd offer Rugby Dump's it's own advise:
"Please use common sense and be respectful"
The video is juvenile. Get rid of it and stick to what you're good at: providing current and brilliant video clips of games and playing sequences of interest.
Hard to believe the level of maturity out there warrants so many "likes" without counter.

First post eh? Can't wait for more of your cheery contributions!

I also thought it was quite unusual for an RD post to have so many positive comments and not a single dissenting voice - do you know why? Because the video's bloody hilarious!

Nice cameos from Cato and "Bendy" by the way! Really good sports.

Some cracking one-liners in there too - one of my favourites: "Out of line? I'm the 10, I run the fucking line!".

I hated it initially but left it playing in the kitchen and can't help thinking that there really is a little bit of genius in this. Very clever and well pitched in the end. Shame the swearing will keep it off TV. All three guys did a brilliant job.

absolutely genius! The whole "posh ex-uni twat" culture isnt as relevant in wales, ireland and most of scotland but its hilarious nonetheless. Go work! Loved it! Was great to see the even tho I play rugby in scotland, we have so much in common with or english counterparts :)

I'd love to see a couple of sequels. I've played rugby in two very different bits of the UK - London and North Yorkshire. This is entirely accurate for the London club, and I reckon one for a harder area of the country would be just as good.

Good video, but I have to say the lash and sheilas are far better in the Southern Hemisphere.

Also, my drunken posh English accent is far better than their drunken Australian accent, and I have never paused the Heineken cup to show my mate a great try, although I did pause it once to show him a great penalty kick.

Can't believe how good that was. As an Irishman who went to an English University full of Oxbridge wannabes, this brought back lots of memories of the painful plonkers in the rugby club. So unbelievably accurate!